To boldly go

"It's like when you're a kid. The first time they tell you that the world is turning and you just can't quite believe it 'cause everything looks like it's standing still... I can feel it: the turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour. The entire planet is hurtling around the Sun at sixty seven thousand miles an hour. And I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world and, if we let go..."

[susiehunsecker-remade]

roman roy groundbreaking representation for asexual people who need to be shot in the head

[culkinzzz]

kieran culkin portrait shoot (2003)

[redcheekdays]

one trek headcanon I have is that plomeek soup is a chai tea situation. plomeek is just the vulcan word for soup, actually. on the first enterprise, having to make do with mostly earth ingredients, t'pol hashed together a simplified version of a comforting soup native to her region of vulcan and one thing led to another and now that regional variation of a single soup recipe is called soup soup by the federation

[susiehunsecker-remade]

roman roy groundbreaking representation for asexual people who need to be shot in the head

[tenorgender]

roman roy would kill himself before using the word asexual. but he is asexual. to me

[djarin]

#he got the Izzy Stamp of Approval™!!!

[orbiten]

some of my thoughts and interpretations of the scene between Jones Hall and Schubert Green (the director of the play), and the scene between Jones and the actress playing Augie's wife:

assuming Conrad was already dead by the time these scenes take place, the moment between Jones and Schubert could be read as Jones processing his grief and going through the stages of grief. he shows some anger, or rather frustration, and he begins to question his own performance and interpretation of Augie (“am i doing him right?”). he's obviously affected by the story, he keeps getting his heart broken every night as he performs the play, and he searches for a meaning and a reason, bargaining with the play director (“do i just keep doing it? without knowing anything?” isn't there supposed to be some kind of an answer out there in the cosmic wilderness?”) Jones says he still doesn't understand the play, and Schubert reassures him, saying that it doesn't matter, that he should just keep telling the story. now this is the moment when i think the context shifts and the subject of the conversation turns to Conrad and Jones' grief. by telling the story/performing the play, Conrad's memory as well as Jones' grief are kept alive. Schubert's “you're doing him right” can be read as Jones doing a good job at performing Augie, but also as Jones doing right by Conrad, by what he wrote and his memory. there's no right way to mourn/grief, but Jones is mourning Conrad in his own way by playing the character that they both created and keeping Conrad's art and memory alive.

acceptance comes in the scene between Jones and the actress. Jones doesn't remember the dialogue, but the actress does, and by recollecting the deleted scene of the dream, Conrad speaks to Jones one last time through the wife/actress. “i think you'll need to replace me” “i think you'll need to try. i'm not coming back, Augie.” thanks to these words, Jones finds comfort and closure, as Conrad, across time and space, in a scene written even before his untimely death, urges him to move on. Jones remembers Augie's final line in the dream: “all my pictures come out”, which could also be read as Jones' performance, because even when he thought he didn't understand the play or what he was performing, he was doing it right, and with this understanding, he can now consciously use his own grief in his performance.

as Jones returns to the play, and the car with Augie and his family leaves Asteroid City, both Augie and Jones move on.

[thesuperheroesnetwork]

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[queerpyracy]

listen. listen. the consumption of animal products is about mutually beneficial relationships Not domination and that's why prioritizing animal r*ghts over animal welfare is an absolutely brain fungus take to have

[queerpyracy]

urban leftists who've never so much as raised a chicken will be like "umm think about the politics of your diet???" because they can't conceive of the fact that domestication is an incredibly sweet gig for most livestock where they don't have to look for their own food or shelter or water are protected from predators and also get free healthcare and a quick clean death

[justslowdown]

100%

The actual issues with our current livestock system are because of capitalism and industrialization. Can we please focus our energy on the global paradigm being cruel and unsustainable to us, the planet, AND livestock instead of getting lost in virtue signaling

[crazy-brazilian]

[argxstxs]

“he made me breathe funny”

YOUR NAME IS ROMAN ROY AND YOU ARE A BOY WHO HAS BEEN SENT TO ST. ANDREWS AND YOUR DAD BEATS YOU WITH A SHOE FOR WANTING LOBSTER AND HE MADE YOU BREATHE FUNNY

YOUR NAME IS ROMAN ROY AND YOU ARE AN ADULT MAN AND YOUR DAD SLAPS YOU WHILE YOU EST A GRAPE BECAUSE YOU MADE A JOKE AND WHEN YOU SPIT YOUR TOOTH OUT IT’S FINE AND HE MADE YOU BREATHE FUNNY

YOUR NAME IS ROMAN ROY AND YOU ARE A DOG AND YOU KNEEL AT HIS FEET AND LOOK UP AT YOUR DAD AND SMILE AND FOR A MOMENT IT FEELS GOOD AND RIGHT AND HE MADE YOU BREATHE FUNNY

YOUR NAME IS ROMAN ROY AND YOU RUN INTO THE CROWD OF PROTESTORS AND CALL PEOPLE MORONS AND IDIOTS IN A SIMULACRUM OF YOUR DAD AND YOUR FACE HURTS BUT YOUR DAD IS DEAD AND HE MADE YOU BREATHE FUNNY

YOUR DAD IS DEAD AND HE’S IN THE COFFIN AND YOU’RE GASPING FOR AIR AND YOU’RE STILL BREATHING FUNNY AND THE WORST PART IS IT’S ONLY NOW THAT YOU FEEL OKAY TO ADMIT HE MADE YOU BREATHE FUNNY

[pynkhues]

Something about Roman telling Kendall that he fucked it in 3.09 diffusing the tension, and Kendall telling Roman he fucked it in 4.09 as adding to it, something about Kendall finding a type of release in failure because at least it means he tried vs Roman finding a condemnation in failure because it means he tried and it wasn't enough.

[wenightmareyou]

new kind of Bad Feeling just dropped

[vamprozy]

and so roman roy’s grief ends in his attempt to resurrect his father’s essence the only way he knows how: by getting kicked, shoved, and beaten until he’s in the fetal position. forever a kid. forever seeking logan’s comforting wrath.

[heeera-deactivated20240707]

roman’s “he made me breathe funny”

[lessbians]

NOOO SHIVVY HONEY DON'T BECOME YOUR OWN MOTHER, ABSENT WHEN HER KIDS MOST NEEDED HER AND ALWAYS RESENTFUL OF HER CHILDREN FOR A LIFE UNLIVED!!!! KENDALL PLS DON'T BECOME LOGAN, WHO CANNOT KEEP AN ENTIRE WOMAN IN HIS MIND AND WHO ABANDONS HIS CHILDREN FOR HIS BUSINESS!!! ROMAN YOU CAN'T FALL INTO THE SAME CYCLE OF SELF-INFLICTED ABUSE AND SHAME SET FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD!!!!! NOOOOOOOOO

connor ur doing fine keep on running for president, darling, you'll make it someday <3

[gena-rowlands]

ROMAN ROY + Wuthering Heights (ch. 16)